Breaking: Iraqi forces kick off operations in southern Kirkuk

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:45 P.M.) – Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (var. Hashd Al-Sha’abi), alongside the Federal Police Forces, have kicked off their latest military operation in the southern countryside of the Kirkuk Governorate.

According to the official media wing of the Popular Mobilization Units, the Iraqi Armed Forces began their operations inside the town of Sadouniyah, which is located in the Kirkuk Governorate’s Hawija District.

The primary objective of this military operation is to clear the Islamic State’s (ISIS) sleeper cells that are currently active in the Hawija District.

This latest military operation will be modeled after the Iraqi Armed Forces’ ongoing campaign to clear ISIS sleeper cells in the northern provinces of Diyala and Nineveh.

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